Good Bugs vs. Bad Bugs Program

Images of the University of Florida IFAS St. Lucie County Cooperative Extension program Good Bugs vs Bad Bugs teaching 4th grade children at St. Andrew's Episcopal Academy in Fort Pierce on how natural enemies like lady beetles can help control bad insects in the landscape without the need to use harsh chemicals. (April 19, 2013)

ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS Tristen Pupo (right), 10, a 4th grade student at St. Andrew's Episcopal Academy, gets help releasing lady beetles into the grass from Lesley Vincent-Ryder, education director for the Manatee Center, during a Good Bugs vs. Bad Bugs program teaching children how natural enemies like lady beetles can help control bad insects in the landscape without the need to use harsh chemicals. Ken Gioeli, and Anita Neal of the University of Florida IFAS St. Lucie County Cooperative Extension and Lesley Vincent-Ryder of the Manatee Center conducted the program about lady beetles along with providing some hands-on experience with the friendly flying insects at the school on Friday. " A lot of the kids have never touch insects before and they have a general bad feelings about insects, they think insects can be yucky," Gioeli said. We're going to teach them that some insects are actually beneficial and each child that is interested can get a hand full of lady bugs are release them into the landscape."

ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS Images of the University of Florida IFAS St. Lucie County Cooperative Extension program Good Bugs vs Bad Bugs, teaching 4th grade children at St. Andrew's Episcopal Academy in Fort Pierce on how natural enemies like lady beetles can help control bad insects in the landscape without the need to use harsh chemicals.

ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS Images of the University of Florida IFAS St. Lucie County Cooperative Extension program Good Bugs vs Bad Bugs, teaching 4th grade children at St. Andrew's Episcopal Academy in Fort Pierce on how natural enemies like lady beetles can help control bad insects in the landscape without the need to use harsh chemicals.

ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS Images of the University of Florida IFAS St. Lucie County Cooperative Extension program Good Bugs vs Bad Bugs, teaching 4th grade children at St. Andrew's Episcopal Academy in Fort Pierce on how natural enemies like lady beetles can help control bad insects in the landscape without the need to use harsh chemicals.

ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS Images of the University of Florida IFAS St. Lucie County Cooperative Extension program Good Bugs vs Bad Bugs, teaching 4th grade children at St. Andrew's Episcopal Academy in Fort Pierce on how natural enemies like lady beetles can help control bad insects in the landscape without the need to use harsh chemicals.

ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS Images of the University of Florida IFAS St. Lucie County Cooperative Extension program Good Bugs vs Bad Bugs, teaching 4th grade children at St. Andrew's Episcopal Academy in Fort Pierce on how natural enemies like lady beetles can help control bad insects in the landscape without the need to use harsh chemicals.

ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS Images of the University of Florida IFAS St. Lucie County Cooperative Extension program Good Bugs vs Bad Bugs, teaching 4th grade children at St. Andrew's Episcopal Academy in Fort Pierce on how natural enemies like lady beetles can help control bad insects in the landscape without the need to use harsh chemicals.

ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS Images of the University of Florida IFAS St. Lucie County Cooperative Extension program Good Bugs vs Bad Bugs, teaching 4th grade children at St. Andrew's Episcopal Academy in Fort Pierce on how natural enemies like lady beetles can help control bad insects in the landscape without the need to use harsh chemicals.

ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS Images of the University of Florida IFAS St. Lucie County Cooperative Extension program Good Bugs vs Bad Bugs, teaching 4th grade children at St. Andrew's Episcopal Academy in Fort Pierce on how natural enemies like lady beetles can help control bad insects in the landscape without the need to use harsh chemicals.

ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS Images of the University of Florida IFAS St. Lucie County Cooperative Extension program Good Bugs vs Bad Bugs, teaching 4th grade children at St. Andrew's Episcopal Academy in Fort Pierce on how natural enemies like lady beetles can help control bad insects in the landscape without the need to use harsh chemicals.

ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS Images of the University of Florida IFAS St. Lucie County Cooperative Extension program Good Bugs vs Bad Bugs, teaching 4th grade children at St. Andrew's Episcopal Academy in Fort Pierce on how natural enemies like lady beetles can help control bad insects in the landscape without the need to use harsh chemicals.

ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS Images of the University of Florida IFAS St. Lucie County Cooperative Extension program Good Bugs vs Bad Bugs, teaching 4th grade children at St. Andrew's Episcopal Academy in Fort Pierce on how natural enemies like lady beetles can help control bad insects in the landscape without the need to use harsh chemicals.

ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS Images of the University of Florida IFAS St. Lucie County Cooperative Extension program Good Bugs vs Bad Bugs, teaching 4th grade children at St. Andrew's Episcopal Academy in Fort Pierce on how natural enemies like lady beetles can help control bad insects in the landscape without the need to use harsh chemicals.

ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS Images of the University of Florida IFAS St. Lucie County Cooperative Extension program Good Bugs vs Bad Bugs, teaching 4th grade children at St. Andrew's Episcopal Academy in Fort Pierce on how natural enemies like lady beetles can help control bad insects in the landscape without the need to use harsh chemicals.

ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS Images of the University of Florida IFAS St. Lucie County Cooperative Extension program Good Bugs vs Bad Bugs, teaching 4th grade children at St. Andrew's Episcopal Academy in Fort Pierce on how natural enemies like lady beetles can help control bad insects in the landscape without the need to use harsh chemicals.

ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS Images of the University of Florida IFAS St. Lucie County Cooperative Extension program Good Bugs vs Bad Bugs, teaching 4th grade children at St. Andrew's Episcopal Academy in Fort Pierce on how natural enemies like lady beetles can help control bad insects in the landscape without the need to use harsh chemicals.

ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS Images of the University of Florida IFAS St. Lucie County Cooperative Extension program Good Bugs vs Bad Bugs, teaching 4th grade children at St. Andrew's Episcopal Academy in Fort Pierce on how natural enemies like lady beetles can help control bad insects in the landscape without the need to use harsh chemicals.

ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS Images of the University of Florida IFAS St. Lucie County Cooperative Extension program Good Bugs vs Bad Bugs, teaching 4th grade children at St. Andrew's Episcopal Academy in Fort Pierce on how natural enemies like lady beetles can help control bad insects in the landscape without the need to use harsh chemicals.